Shaping light – new frontiers in big fast data

该项目旨在解决解决带宽过载问题的新技术需求。由于人类交流和互动的基本愿望，我们的社会对互联网数据的需求呈指数级增长。数据容量紧缩迫在眉睫。数据需求正迅速接近控制单模光纤最大数据容量的非线性香农极限。带宽限制可能会对社会和经济产生严重影响。本项目旨在开发基于创新的3D集成光子学的芯片级模式复用器，并将其与光增益相结合来整形用于空分复用光通信网络。这是为了突破目前阻碍互联网数据速率增长的数据容量限制。

This project aims to address the need for new technologies to tackle the bandwidth overload. Because of the basic human desire to communicate and interact, our society has an exponentially growing Internet data demand. The data capacity crunch is imminent. Data demand is rapidly approaching the nonlinear Shannon limit which governs the maximum data capacity of single-mode optical fibres. Bandwidth limitations may have severe implications for society and economy. This project aims to develop chip-scale mode-multiplexers based on innovative 3D integrated photonics and combine them with optical gain to shape light for space-division multiplexed optical communication networks. This is designed to break through the data capacity limit that currently prevents growth in Internet data rates.